Ahh just had a nice big ole joint to start the day of my WW.
So i got up at the crack of dawn yesterday and completely went through the entire hydro setup to clean it out of all the gunk. My god it was a pain in the ass. Mostly beacause my room is in a cramped space which makes it all that much harder.
Since i started growing in the buckets i have not pulled all the lids to have a look in the bottom. Ive been inspecting the roots by pulling up the net pots and making asessments from there.
In a about 2 weeks time this is what the bottom of the buckets looked like.
PUHHHHH!!! Im thinking alot of the red color is from the hydroton i didnt wash but there is def roots rotting in there.
It seems when i flush out the system there is always about an inch or so of liquid that i cant get out and that is why this shit never came out after 4 flushes now.
SO i got a handy dandy lil shop vac and sucked out every single bucket. Not all of the buckets where this bad but they all had root rot shit in them to some degree.
What a fkn mess lol. This took me like 3 hours to just get the buckets and plumbing lines completly steril.
So in the mean time id also cleaned every single plant heres what they were looking like.
UGHHH
Nastyness.
You sure wouldnt know they were sick by looking at the leaves. From all above appearances they look otherwise healthy.
Here im hauling all the plants up to the kitchen for some very personal attention.
I mixed up a strong batch of peroxide and did a root bath keeping a close eye as the peroxide i could hear sizzling on the tender lil roots.
Overall i didnt find much rot at all it was more the lil feeders tips floating in the buckets that had the roots coated in shit.
So after about a 8 hour day in the cave I got that hydro system spic & span. Not really sure if my nutes ive been using are burning up the root tips so until i get my DM nutes next week ive opted to just fill the system up with plain ph 5.8 water.
And now a few happy plant pics
Now thats more like it. The Zone DM i believe is def a necessity for the future of this grow to keep things looking this way.
Nice happy family. Dogs Headbands Grape Apes Timewarps Timewarp X Romulans.
Ohhhh One thing i forgot to mention. While cleaning the roots on the dogs i did check for male flowers and plucked them all. For the most part they are all shooting female preflowers all over. Just a few male preflowers on each seemed to be on the lower half of the plants. So for anyone else out there growing the dog keep an eye out they are pretty easy to spot if you know what your looking for.
Found my first male Timewarp Whoo Hoo. Most people would chunk it but im going to grow it out for some breeding in my other room. Hoping to get 1 or 2 more males yet. I think ive got one distinct Timewarp female so far and she is a beauty with tight node spacing stout branching.
will be taking clones from her for my next grow.
A lil HST lol on the Dogs. Im trying to train them to grow in a circular patern. Seems to be working so far.
And Thats about it folks. Everythhing is on the up and up again. Knock on wood
1BMM
It is likely outdoor grown but super dense like trainwreck. If it is what the label said its some goooooooood shit 
